KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuter) - Tropical
Storm Marco's threat to Jamaica eased but emergency workers remained on
high alert for torrential rains Thursday as the weather system meandered
in the Caribbean south of the island.

At 4 p.m. EST Marco was about 140 miles
south of Kingston, at latitude 15.9 north and longitude 76.5 west, and
moving very

HAVANA, Nov 2 (Reuter) - Cuba
said on Saturday it was not accepting part of a planeload of food aid for
victims of Hurricane Lili sent by Cuban-Americans because packages had
been adorned with political, ''counter-revolutionary'' slogans.

The government said in a statement published
in the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma that it had decided to accept
''all the cargo that does not have political inscriptions and suggestive,
provocative and counter-revolutionary messages.'' This amounted to about
three quarters of the aid.